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dish

Pronunciation: /dɪʃ/

The English word “dish” has 18 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
  2. The contents of such a vessel.
  3. A specific type of prepared food.
  4. Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
  5. A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
  6. Something that fits someone's tastes, interests, or abilities.
  7. A sexually attractive person.
  8. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
  9. A hollow place, as in a field.
  10. The home plate.
  11. A trough in which ore is measured.
  12. That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
  13. Gossip.

verb

  1. To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
  2. To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
  3. To insult, speak ill of.
  4. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
  5. To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

Etymology

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dăská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos. Cognates Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”),…

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